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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.
Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.
Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.
My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.
You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.
God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).
To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?
I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.
You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.
Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
What happens if someone else has my eyes, and they start looking at stuff I don't like? I don't like the idea of that.
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.
I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better.
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that.
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.